In May of the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty (549), Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, who created the foundation of Xiao Liang, was starved to death by Hou Jing in Taicheng, and the prince Xiao Gang was established as the emperor by Hou Jing, and changed to Yuan Dabao, Xiao Gang was Emperor Jianwen, and he also became Hou Jing's puppet to control Southern Liang, of course, Hou Jing could control the capital Jiankang nearby, outside Jiankang, it was still controlled by the Xiao Liang royal family.
Emperor Wu of Liang, who advocated Buddhism.
Among them, Jingzhou controlled by Xiao Yi, King of Xiangdong, Yizhou controlled by Xiao Ji, King of Wuling, Xiangzhou controlled by Xiao Yu, King of Hedong, and Yongzhou controlled by Xiao Jing, King of Yueyang, belong to the four strong imperial forces, it stands to reason that they should cooperate sincerely and jointly crusade against Hou Jing, but under the throne, the two sides fought each other, otherwise Hou Jing's rebellion could be pacified by them in the early stage, and they would not have watched Xiao Yan trapped in Taicheng.
The first to do it was Xiao Yi, at the beginning of the Hou Jing Rebellion, Xiao Yi was named a fake Huang Yue, the governor of the Chinese and foreign military, Xiao Yan originally planned to let him enter the army Qin Wang, but he sat and watched his father be starved to death, and after Xiao Yan starved to death, he planned to use his own rights to control the vassal kings in various places, obviously the various vassal kings with heavy troops did not listen to him at all.
Disobedient can only be beaten, Xiao Yi first sent troops to attack Xiangzhou, which is closest to him, Xiao Yu was defeated, and immediately sought the help of his younger brother Xiao Jing in Yongzhou, but failed, and finally Xiao Yu was killed, Xiao Jing knew that the next one would be his turn, and turned his head to surrender to Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty.
Hou Jing's westward route.
While Xiao Yi solved the surrounding hidden dangers, Hou Jing went all the way west along the Yangtze River, and once approached Jiangling, where Xiao Yi was located, and as a last resort, Xiao Yi also asked for help from the Western Wei, at the cost of ceding Xiao Liang's Hanzhong, with the help of the Western Wei, Xiao Yi successfully withstood the pressure, and even recaptured Jiangzhou and Qiuzhou, which were captured by Hou Jing, and the situation was very good.
In the second year of Dabao (551), Xiao Yi sent Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian to crusade against Hou Jing, and Xiao Ji in Yizhou also intended to send troops to fight Hou Jing, Xiao Yi ** willing? After a letter, it was implied that the two brothers should be like Sun Liu, and now they are in their own realms, Xiao Ji agreed in such a vague way, although Sun Liu is an ally, but he has done a lot of backstabbing things, which Xiao Ji forgot.
Under the attack of the two armies of Wang and Chen, Hou Jingjie was defeated and retreated, in order to get over the emperor's addiction, he abolished Emperor Jianwen, and established Xiao Dong, the king of Yuzhang, as the emperor, and then abolished Xiao Dong, established himself as the emperor, the country name was Han, and changed the Yuan Taishi, but within a few months Jiankang was besieged, and the general trend had gone, Hou Jing was killed by the generals, and the rebellion of Hou Jing that lasted four years was declared over.
Hou Jing is dead, Liang can not be without a king for a day, under the persuasion of Wang Seng Bian, Chen Baxian and others, Xiao Yi called the emperor in Jiangling, as Emperor Liang Yuan, changed the Yuan Chengsheng, ** Xing reward, Wang Seng argued that he supervised the military in the east, Chen Baxian supervised the military in the west, and the two were in charge of half of Xiao Liang's military.
Emperor Yuan of Liang. Of course, Xiao Yi only controlled them on the surface, in fact, the two of them didn't listen to orders at all, Wang Seng Bi and Chen Ba first controlled the capital Jiankang, and the other controlled the important places in Beijing, although they were both in the name of Xiao Yi, but they were both real power figures, Xiao Yi could not control them, and Xiao Yi's court and Nanliang were reduced to an empty shell dynasty, but at present, the two still give Xiao Yi enough respect on the surface.
This is also the reason why Xiao Yi is not sure about Jiankang, after all, Jiangling is also his base camp no matter how he says it, but when he goes to Jiankang, he will be completely reduced to a puppet.
Not long after Xiao Yi became emperor, Xiao Ji in Yizhou was unhappy, although after destroying Hou Jing, Xiao Yi named Xiao Ji as Yizhou Assassin History, Fake Huang Yue, and Tai Lieutenant, among the three rewards, only the fake Huang Yue is still a little useful, and the rest are all false positions, and how did Xiao Yi appease himself in the first place? said that he was Sun Liu, and now Xiao Yi actually became the emperor behind his back, how can this be reasonable, and his strength is not weak, how can Xiao Yi compare with himself?
Xiao Ji is called the emperor. Under the encouragement of the people around him, Xiao Ji proclaimed himself emperor in Yizhou, changed the Yuan Tianzheng, and led his troops south in August of the first year of Chengsheng (552), wanting to destroy Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi also wanted to destroy Xiao Ji's control of the rich land of Yizhou, but he didn't want Chen Ba to intervene with Wang Seng first, for fear that they would reach out to their west.
Without the two of them sending troops, how could they win? To be honest, rescuing the Western Wei is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, but Xiao Yi really plans to seek skin with the tiger, hoping that Yuwentai will sneak attack Yizhou and force Xiao Ji to retreat.
Xiao Yi and Xiao Ji are really brothers, they would rather be cheap outsiders than their own people, after learning that Yuwentai attacked his hometown, Xiao Ji desperately wanted to kill Xiao Yi without his hometown, so the Western Wei Dynasty occupied the important Yizhou with almost no effort, and also made the Southern Dynasty completely lose the important land of Yizhou.
Early Western Wei Dynasty. 
Northern Zhou on the basis of the Western Wei Dynasty.
And when he learned that his hometown was stolen, Xiao Ji's generals wanted to go back to defend their homes, but in order to cheer everyone up, Xiao Ji took out all the wealth he had accumulated over the years and used money to motivate them, but when he fought several times, Xiao Ji began to pick and search again, reluctant to collect the wealth accumulated over the years, and suddenly lost the hearts of the people, and the army fell like a mountain, and was defeated by Xiao Yi's army.
After pacifying the rebellion of Hou Jing and defeating Xiao Ji, Xiao Yi was finally able to sit on the emperor's throne with peace of mind, after several years of civil strife, Xiao Liang was full of holes, and the Eastern Wei and Western Wei took advantage of the fire to rob, so they should have a good relationship with them, and then recuperate and restore their national strength, but Xiao Yi didn't think so, thinking about how powerful Xiao Liang was in his father's back then, the battle of Zhongli beat the Northern Wei Dynasty to the ground, and even Chen Qingzhi was able to break through the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty and turn the Northern Wei Dynasty upside down.
And now the Northern Wei Dynasty is divided into two, but after the separation, they were bullied by them, the Western Wei got Yizhou, not to mention, even the Eastern Wei Dynasty is about to stretch out its hand to the south of the Yangtze River, Shi can bear it, Chengsheng three years (554 years), Xiao Yi gave Yuwentai an arrogant letter, basically hoping that Yuwentai will return Yizhou to himself.
Obviously, Xiao Yi thought that Yuwentai's strength was not as good as that of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and even despised Yuwentai a little, since this was the case, Yuwentai planned to give Xiao Yi a little shock, and immediately sent Yu Jin, the general of the Zhuguo, to solve this matter.
How is Yu Jin going to solve it? Force is the solution to all problems, he planned to attack Jiangling, and Xiao Jing, who learned that Yu Jin was going to attack Jiangling, surrendered to Yuwentai, said that he was willing to lead the way, willing to actively cooperate with Yu Jin's military operations, and sent his son over as a hostage.
You must know that Xiangyang, where Xiao Jing is located, is very close to Jiangling, and with his help, Western Wei can take advantage of Xiangyang to attack quickly, and at the same time, he sent Yuwen Hu and Yang Zhong to lead the elite cavalry to Jiangjin to cut off Xiao Yi's way back.
At this time, Xiao Yi didn't know that the Western Wei sent troops to attack him, and he didn't make much preparations, and the army attacked in vain and wanted to make peace with the Western Wei, and even planned to let his son go to the Western Wei as a hostage, obviously he thought a little too much, the Western Wei army still continued to attack, just on the seventeenth day of Jin's army, Xiao Yi was forced to open the door and surrender, Yu Jin didn't talk to Xiao Yi much, and directly hacked him to death, the intention is obvious, no matter who governs Xiao Liang in the future, offend the Western Wei, and that's the end.
Emperor Liang Yuan ordered the burning of books before surrendering, and the burning of books in Jiangling became a catastrophe in cultural history.
As for Jiangling, it is not something that the Western Wei can take now, and once the other party's reinforcements arrive, he will be very passive, so he will loot Jiangling, and a prosperous city will be reduced to an empty city.
And after Wang Shengbi and Chen Ba first knew that Xiao Yi was killed, until the matter could not be reversed, and they were not too entangled in the gains and losses of Jiangling, the top priority was to support the new emperor to continue Xiao Liang's national ancestry, and chose to choose, and chose Xiao Fangzhi, the ninth son of Xiao Yi, the ninth son of Jin'an, as the emperor.
During the Hou Jing Rebellion, the Eastern Wei Dynasty was replaced by the Northern Qi Dynasty, seeing that the Western Wei Dynasty continued to expand, he also took advantage of Xiao Liang's ruin to get a piece of the pie, and sent his younger brother Shangdang Wang Gao Lian to the south, and even in order to disgust Xiao Liang, he wanted to send the captured Zhenyang Marquis Xiao Yuanming back to be the emperor, just as Emperor Wu of Liang sent Chen Qingzhi to escort Yuan Hao back to the north.
Wang Sengbi and Chen Ba first refused, but Wang Sengbi couldn't beat the Northern Qi on the battlefield, and his attitude gradually softened.
In March of the fourth year of Chengsheng (555), Wang Seng was forced to welcome Xiao Yuanming into Jiankang as the emperor, and changed the Yuan Tiancheng, as for Chen Baxian, he said that Wang Seng argued how you can't be tough, and hated Wang Seng Bian's unauthorized abolition, and immediately sent troops to besiege Jiankang, under the surprise attack, Wang Seng was captured and then killed, Xiao Yuanming, who reigned for seven months, was forced to abdicate, and Xiao Fangzhi successfully ascended the throne, which was for Emperor Liang Jing.
Just when Chen Baxian and Wang Seng were arguing and fighting endlessly, there was a new King of Liang on the Jiangling side, this is Xiao Jing who led the way, although Yu Jin retreated from Jiangling, but Jiangling always had to find someone to watch it, the best candidate at the moment is Xiao Jing, after taking Xiao Jing's Xiangyang away, he was driven to Jiangling to be the emperor, that is, the small dynasty of Western Liang with only one city.
West Beam. From the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty (549) when Xiao Yan starved to death in Taicheng to the fourth year of Chengsheng (555) when Xiao Fangzhi ascended the throne, in just six years, Xiao Liang successively produced Xiao Yan, Xiao Gang, Xiao Dong, Hou Jing, Xiao Yi, Xiao Ji, Xiao Jing, Xiao Yuanming, Xiao Fangzhi Nine emperors, of course, Xiao Fangzhi was abolished by Chen Baxian within a few years, and Xiliang went all the way to the beginning of the Sui Dynasty.
It can be said that the Southern Liang after Xiao Yan is not the most chaotic, only more chaotic, although Xiao Liang does not have the tragedy of slaughtering the clan on a large scale like Liu Song and Nanqi, but it is not far behind to fight and pit each other, especially Xiao Yi and Xiao Jing, the two pairs of living treasures, competing to flatter Yuwentai, and also making the Western Wei Dynasty the biggest beneficiary before and after the Hou Jing Rebellion.
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